Twitter API Connected Google Cloud Function

Connect to Twitter API through a Cloud Secrets API key in order to manage Tweets.

Cloud Account Prerequisites:

• Google Cloud Console account
• 2nd-gen Cloud Function
• Cloud Run API enabled

General Knowledge Prerequisites:

• Google Cloud IAM privileges & roles
• Google Cloud Service Accounts
• Google Cloud Run
• Node 16
• Typescript
• GTS
• ESLint
• Prettier
• Nodemon
• Concurrently
• Twitter API
• Twitter API SDK

Local Tool Recommendations:

• VSCode
• NPX (npm install -g npx)
• NVM (or a similar node manager)

To test a GCF locally:

1. nvm use 16 - Switch to Node 16 (nvm install 16.5.1 if not installed)
2. npm install - Install all node_modules for the GCF
3. TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN= npm run watch - Serve the example GCF locally
4. http://localhost:8080/ - Visit the locally served GCF

*A note on easily moving ready components from local to the cloud:

After cloning this repository, you can upload a zip of the example GCF directory directly to a created Cloud Function. Alternatively, you can manually create & copy GCF files and their contents into your created Cloud Function.

Twitter Developer Sign-up required!

In order to use the Twitter API SDK, you'll need to sign-up to the Twitter developer portal and create a Bearer token & access tokens. Those should be stored in Google Cloud Secrets as TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN, TWITTER_CLIENT_ID, TWITTER_CLIENT_SECRET